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sawing logs rather loudly.
37h e u r o d I g a I
Whnv's Aunt Lizzie?
1 ipi
....He."
"Mind if I sit with you?"
Lizzie nodded. "Make yourself comfortable." | "Couldn't help but smell the pies."
Lizzie smiled. "Thought I'd surprise everyone and serve Vni lor supper."
"Ahe and Lydiann will like that, for sure and for certain." N,nlk> grew quiet.
Aunt Lizzie put her finger in the Bible, closing it, and tilled her head just so, looking hard at her now. "Something's I i H i your mind, child. I can nearly hear it from here."
She thought h&v much better it might be if she didn't give in to the urge to open herself up and instead simply sat there, basking in the love her aunt so effortlessly offered. But ! i/zie was altogether correct that there was much on her in11ul. "I miss talkin' to ya, Aendi. And I want to speak about my husband, Harvey, with somebody. . . with you, maybe, if v 11Vi like to hear."
"Well, sure I would," Lizzie insisted.
Sadie related that she wished her family might have had i he opportunity to know her husband. "Harvey kept folk in .inches, tellin' one story after 'nother whenever we invited
38'"/Oeoerly d_, e iu> I s
relatives or friends over for meals or whatnot. Among other things, I sorely miss his laughter."
Aunt Lizzie leaned back, relaxing in her chair. "I daresay there is much to miss. I wish to goodness I might've known your Harvey."
Sadie felt suddenly eager to share something of her married years with Lizzie, having kept fairly mum since her return home, her loss having been too recent. She talked of their Christmases together, happily surrounded by Harvey's extended family, as well as the church folk. "Ach, we had the kindest bishop. I often wished he might've met Bishop Bontrager somehow, ya know." She was ever so careful not to step too hard on their bishop's toes here, but there had been many times when she felt sorry for Dat and Mamma and other members of the Gobbler's Knob church district, as well as herself. But, lest she show disrespect now for the Lord's anointed, she kept her peace. Aunt Lizzie need not know her private opinion of Bishop Bontrager. Besides, Lizzie had never admitted to having a problem with him.
"I'm glad you had such a fine husband and church in Indiana," Aunt Lizzie said after a while, giving Sadie's knee a pat. "We best be checking on the pies."
Sadie followed her downstairs and helped her set the pies out to cool. They then looked in on Dawdi John, who was still sleeping, before Lizzie motioned Sadie back upstairs. "There's something I've been thinkin' on," her aunt said in hushed tones. "And it's best ya hear it from me."
Sadie wondered if this heart-to-heart talk might involve Leah and her maidel status, or some such sad thing. Can it beshe senses I've kept mum about some of my own meddling in that?
But Lizzie readily made it clear she had other things on
39
her mind. "When I was but a teenager, I got myself in some
terrible trouble, as you already know." She stopped, as if to
catch her breath. "I never told you all there was to the
Nfory . . . and now I feel you oughta know the daughter I gave
birth to is your sister Leah in all truth, your first cousin."
JAunr Lizzie's face was slightly flushed. "Leah has known this
[nince her baptism, and before the Lord took your mamma, she
Inli;ired this with Mary Ruth and Hannah. I thought it was
[high time you knew, too."
j Aunt Lizzie is Leah's mother? Sadie felt the air go clean out lol her. "Leah's your. . . your own daughter?"
37h e u r o d I g a I
Whnv's Aunt Lizzie?
1 ipi
....He."
"Mind if I sit with you?"
Lizzie nodded. "Make yourself comfortable." | "Couldn't help but smell the pies."
Lizzie smiled. "Thought I'd surprise everyone and serve Vni lor supper."
"Ahe and Lydiann will like that, for sure and for certain." N,nlk> grew quiet.
Aunt Lizzie put her finger in the Bible, closing it, and tilled her head just so, looking hard at her now. "Something's I i H i your mind, child. I can nearly hear it from here."
She thought h&v much better it might be if she didn't give in to the urge to open herself up and instead simply sat there, basking in the love her aunt so effortlessly offered. But ! i/zie was altogether correct that there was much on her in11ul. "I miss talkin' to ya, Aendi. And I want to speak about my husband, Harvey, with somebody. . . with you, maybe, if v 11Vi like to hear."
"Well, sure I would," Lizzie insisted.
Sadie related that she wished her family might have had i he opportunity to know her husband. "Harvey kept folk in .inches, tellin' one story after 'nother whenever we invited
38'"/Oeoerly d_, e iu> I s
relatives or friends over for meals or whatnot. Among other things, I sorely miss his laughter."
Aunt Lizzie leaned back, relaxing in her chair. "I daresay there is much to miss. I wish to goodness I might've known your Harvey."
Sadie felt suddenly eager to share something of her married years with Lizzie, having kept fairly mum since her return home, her loss having been too recent. She talked of their Christmases together, happily surrounded by Harvey's extended family, as well as the church folk. "Ach, we had the kindest bishop. I often wished he might've met Bishop Bontrager somehow, ya know." She was ever so careful not to step too hard on their bishop's toes here, but there had been many times when she felt sorry for Dat and Mamma and other members of the Gobbler's Knob church district, as well as herself. But, lest she show disrespect now for the Lord's anointed, she kept her peace. Aunt Lizzie need not know her private opinion of Bishop Bontrager. Besides, Lizzie had never admitted to having a problem with him.
"I'm glad you had such a fine husband and church in Indiana," Aunt Lizzie said after a while, giving Sadie's knee a pat. "We best be checking on the pies."
Sadie followed her downstairs and helped her set the pies out to cool. They then looked in on Dawdi John, who was still sleeping, before Lizzie motioned Sadie back upstairs. "There's something I've been thinkin' on," her aunt said in hushed tones. "And it's best ya hear it from me."
Sadie wondered if this heart-to-heart talk might involve Leah and her maidel status, or some such sad thing. Can it beshe senses I've kept mum about some of my own meddling in that?
But Lizzie readily made it clear she had other things on
39
her mind. "When I was but a teenager, I got myself in some
terrible trouble, as you already know." She stopped, as if to
catch her breath. "I never told you all there was to the
Nfory . . . and now I feel you oughta know the daughter I gave
birth to is your sister Leah in all truth, your first cousin."
JAunr Lizzie's face was slightly flushed. "Leah has known this
[nince her baptism, and before the Lord took your mamma, she
Inli;ired this with Mary Ruth and Hannah. I thought it was
[high time you knew, too."
j Aunt Lizzie is Leah's mother? Sadie felt the air go clean out lol her. "Leah's your. . . your own daughter?"
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